BLOG / Ashleigh Armitage

Instagram Designer working with clients in the arts, cultural and educational sectors.

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Cover design by Alvin Lustig for A Dream of Love by William Carlos Williams. New York: New Directions, 1948 by Crossett Library Bennington College on Flickr.

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Ed Ruscha, born today in 1937, worked as a typesetter, where he began seeing words “as pictures." 

[Edward Ruscha. OOF. 1962 (reworked 1963)]

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[design-is-fine]

Kultur im Heim / Culture at home, 1957-60. Berlin. Quarterly interior design magazine of the former east german “DDR” / GDR. Source

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http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2015/10/janice-kerbel-at-catriona-jeffries/

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2CV folder for the british market, 1971. Unknown artist. Agency Delpire for Automobiles Citroën, France. Source

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Stephan Michelspacher, Antiqua Capitals, early 17th century. Engraving. “Die Buchstaben in perspektivischer Verkürzung mit Würfeln und anderen geometrischen Körpern”. MAK Wien. Source

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Joseph Binder, cover artwork for Graphis magazine, 1948. USA. Herb Lubalin Study Center / flickr

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Helen Federico, illustration for Betty Crocker’s cook book Ways With Chicken, 1969. Golden Press, NY. Complete: Eudaemonius / flickr

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[design-is-fine]

Paul Klee, carpet, 1927, From: Auf der Suche nach dem Orient. Paul Klee. Teppich der Erinnerung, Zentrum Paul Klee Bern. Via bauhaus online

[design-is-fine]

Handyman’s Book, 1957. Better Homes & Gardens, Meredith Publishing, USA. The complete book via Eudaemonius / flickr